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“If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.”
“Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.”
“But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defe...”
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.”
“Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past”
“The human brain creates everything that you are.”
“People used to recognize it as mood.Science has revealed it as cannabinoids.When you feel sad, just do long running.Then you will know that even mood can be governed.”
“…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.”
“You’re a biological wonder without precedent.”
“Three words will allow you to change your thinking and change your life … “I am responsible.”
“I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.”“Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.”
“Any thought that you don’t control has the power to become toxic.”
“Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.”
“I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.”
“In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his...”
“Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.”
“I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don’t mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way.”
“A murder was never about brawn, it began and ended in the brain and the brain could justify anything.”
“The only way you’re going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you’re damned.”
“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.”
